Source West Virginia Teach21 Project Based Learning
Subject Music
Grade Level 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Operating a Musical on a Shoestring Budget
In this task, students will collaborate on finding sources to acquire musical equipment and props for little to no money.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Standards, group assignment sheet, checklists, rubrics, survey, web resources, guide to managing the process
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Opposition to the Philippine-American War
This task assesses students’ ability to use evidence to support a historical argument. Students are presented with two documents that provide different perspectives on the war in the Philippines. Students are then asked to explain how each of these disparate accounts supports the same historical conclusion: many Americans opposed the war in the Philippines.
The task includes a range of supplementary materials, available for download with the creation of a free account:
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Art
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Origami Project
In the Origami Project task, students will learn how to fold an Origami crane. They will also practice concentration and patience and will make small gifts to please others.
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Art
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Origami Project
In this task, students will learn patience by constructing Origami artwork.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Classroom activities, web resources, student work examples
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Environmental Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Our Rivers, Our World
In the Our Rivers, Our World task, students will study the impact of human behavior on river health in several countries. his project promotes active and responsible citizenship through international environmental science collaboration between science teachers and their students. Groups will participate in river excursions with "hands-on" water analysis, professional mentoring and networking, videoconferences, and workshop presentations.
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Interdisciplinary, World Languages and Cultures, English Language Arts
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Pen Friends
In the Pen Friends task, students will exchange letters with students in Japan. They will learn and understand about the culture, school life and so forth both their own country and others’. They also learn the skill of language and possibly make a life long friend.
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Photographs of Working Children
This task assesses students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a document. Students are asked to consider how the contextual information affects the reliability of Lewis Hine's photography. They then must consider how the content of the photograph could affect its reliability. Finally, students must think of other information they would like to know about the photographer or the circumstances surrounding the photograph to further evaluate its reliability.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Art
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Photojournalism
The Photojournalism task is a digital media project supporting young people around the world to share images about issues and stories from their communities. In 2012 - 2013, the project focused on the theme of 'Images of Social Change.' In 2013 - 2014, the project is focusing on the theme of 'Heritage, Hunger, and Food Security.'
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Pickett's Charge
This task measures students’ ability to source a document. This assessment gauges whether students understand an important aspect of sourcing: the time elapsed between when a document was produced and the event that it depicts- and how reliability may be affected.
Students who understand the importance of when a document was produced will see that the painting is of little use to historians who wish to understand the immediate circumstances around Pickett's Charge because it was produced over 30 years after the event.
The task includes a range of supplementary materials, all accessible and available for download with the creation of a free account through the site:
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Portrait of an Iroquois Leader
This task assesses whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine a painting of an Iroquois man by a British artist, then determine which facts can help them evaluate the painting's historical reliability. Strong students will be able to explain how the false impression that Hendrick was an emperor (Fact 1) and the alliance between the British and the Iroquois against the French (Fact 3) may have fostered the regal and flattering nature of the painting.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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